01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100100 01100101 01100001 01101100 00111111
edit - honestly not a troll. is it the specific formatting of “em” dashes? i know for sure we use them all the time. or at least i do. but they’re just dashes to me, so…
Most people aren’t taking the time to type in
ctrl+shift+u+2+0+1+4when a regular minus-dash would get the point across with a single keystroke. But there is enough of a distinction that some people (like you and I) will use the proper punctuation when there is an opportunity to do so.What I find far more suspicious is the unicode hyphen, because no human would be able to tell the difference, and would therefore always choose to input a minus.
emacs:
C-x 8 _ mC-x 8 RET E M SPC D TAB RETemacs using input methods
C-\ T e X RETto enter TeX input method.- - -to enter an em dash when in that input method.C-\ s g m l RETto enter sgml input method.& m d a s h ;to enter an em dash when in that input method.C-\ r f c 1 3 4 5 RETto enter rfc1345 input method.& - Mto enter an em dash when in that input method.For X11 or Wayland, if you have assigned a key to be Compose: Compose and then three hyphens to get an em dash.
I use emacs every day but idk if this post is putting its best foot forward lol
I don’t know, it seems like a fairly minimalist OS.
Not sure, if that’s a Linux thing, but I can press
Alt Grand-to get an en-dash, as wellAlt GrandShiftand-to get an em-dash.Probably depends on the desktop environment, on Sway by default I need to use the compose key.
If I hold the - on my phone I get –—¯
You don’t have type all of that. E.g. on iOS you type two dashes and it is automatically converted to an emdash.
I promise I’m not AI when I test this out:
Beep boop bop—I’m a computer!
Regular dash: -
Em dash: —
(Apparently you can also hold the dash key down and it will give you a couple of different dash options and also a dot)
Fair, but then again, iOS autocorrect isn’t exactly not AI.
it’s not
It isn’t not not AI? Double-negatives have thrown me for a loop here.